To Jesomina and Zampano on the road

Shaina 2022-04-23 07:02:32

Jesomina: You have many choices. You can choose to live with someone you admire, care for, and admire you. You can choose to live with myself like the monks of the convent, but you Bow your head in refusal, or say goodbye tearfully. It's not because you love him, it's because you're afraid, you're afraid to admit it, you're afraid to run away from your destiny. You keep asking "you love me, don't you?" to your destiny, and you want even the slightest solace. However, innocent and kind, do you dare to ask yourself "Do I love you"? In the end, your rationality completely collapsed after seeing with your own eyes the life of your dreams and fantasies being quietly pushed to the bottom of the lake. You want to force yourself to keep going back on the "right" trajectory of your life, but you're running out of energy. The cold winter is your desperate heart, and it is also the end of the road that your lost courage leads you to. Zampano: Ladies and gentlemen, this is an iron chain, 6mm thick, cast iron, harder than steel. Simply bulge your pectoral muscles and your ribcage will break it open. This piece of cloth is there to protect you, and in case the iron hook pierces your muscles, we won't see your ugly flesh-and-blood look. The timid audience should turn their faces away and open their eyes to see a hero tougher than steel offering applause and cheers to you. Countless times along the way you subconsciously choose to stop, but you screw it up again and again. So you just hope that time can flow reasonably and take you on the road. You never thought that even if you have electroplated lungs, you are just a coward who dare not look straight into your heart and repeat your own life day after day in order to numb yourself. Under the curse of numbness, you finally reached the end of the road, but you are only accompanied by the waves that repeat in the dark night, the lonely sky, and the scattered sand in the rout.

If you have the opportunity to go again, may you all have the courage to refuse and accept.

2021-12-12

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  • Zampanò: [reciting his act by rote before a crowd] Here we have a piece of chain that is a quarter of an inch thick. It is made of crude iron, stronger than steel. With the simple expansion of my pectoral muscles, or chest, that is, I'll break the hook.

    [collecting money from the crowd]

    Zampanò: Thank you, thank you. Now, to do this feat, I must fill myself up like a tire. If a blood vessel should break, I would spit blood. For instance, in Milan a man weighing 240 pounds lost his eyesight doing this trick. That is because the optical nerves take a beating, and once you lose your eyes, you are finished. If there's any delicate person in the audience, I would advise him to look away 'cause there could be blood.

    [with seemingly great effort, he breaks the chain]

  • Gelsomina's Mother: She's not like Rosa. But she's a good girl, poor thing. She'll do what she's told. She just came out a little strange. But, if she eats every day, maybe she'll get better.